anyone played with Mac OS-X in VMWare?

czubin wrote:

Except it's illegal? Check apple's EULA

AFAIK, Apple's EULA hasn't been legally tested, I doubt they could legally stop you from buying their OS in a shop and installing it under VMWare.

W3bbo wrote:



czubin wrote: Except it's illegal? Check apple's EULA

AFAIK, Apple's EULA hasn't been legally tested, I doubt they could legally stop you from buying their OS in a shop and installing it under VMWare.

That's all fine and dandy, but you can't buy the X86 version in a shop...

W3bbo wrote:



czubin wrote:Except it's illegal? Check apple's EULA

AFAIK, Apple's EULA hasn't been legally tested, I doubt they could legally stop you from buying their OS in a shop and installing it under VMWare.

And some state EULA's are illegal, still that doesn't stop companies to start a lawsuit against you. (and under those terms, they'll probably win)

Don't ever think you can just go out and violate an EULA

czubin wrote:

Don't ever think you can just go out and violate an EULA

I've done a lot more than that, and I'm willing to bet the majority of us have too. Ever noticed the "do not dissassemble" comment in the EULA? You know that prohibits even things like extracting icons from shell32.dll?

You know, technically even using a computer in the UK is illegal?

W3bbo wrote:

I've done a lot more than that, and I'm willing to bet the majority of us have too. Ever noticed the "do not dissassemble" comment in the EULA? You know that prohibits even things like extracting icons from shell32.dll?

Are you serious?

I just did that for my DVDPlayer program in the Sandbox. I extracted the DVD icons from shell32.dll and applied them to my exe using Resource Hacker.


Regards,
Vincent

W3bbo wrote:


You know, technically even using a computer in the UK is illegal?

Interesting; how come?

Angus Higgins

W3bbo wrote:

 You know that prohibits even things like extracting icons from shell32.dll?

Given that the artwork contained in shell32.dll is copyright Microsoft, I'd have thought that was obvious....

W3bbo wrote:


You know, technically even using a computer in the UK is illegal?

Go on, this has got to be worth a giggle....

W3bbo wrote:

czubin said:

Except it's illegal? Check apple's EULA

AFAIK, Apple's EULA hasn't been legally tested, I doubt they could legally stop you from buying their OS in a shop and installing it under VMWare.

I can't wait till you are actualy mature enough to work for a company that produces software. Let us know when you are working for one so I can do something I never do, I would really enjoy advocating the piracy of any project that you will work on. I'd love to see a company be ripped off and go down the gurgler as you sit behind your personal beliefs. You really do show your age at times W3bbo no mater how mature you think youare. In regards to the original question, yes it is against Aples EULA. Doing what you suggest breaks that agreement. On the flip side I have installed VM Ware Fusion on my Mac Mini at work and it is dog slow when compared to Parallels under Mac OS X on the MB Pro. They have a long way to catch up to Parallels when it come to OS X interaction.

I really wish that this text input control worked under Safari, GRRR it screws with what I type

AndyC wrote:

Go on, this has got to be worth a giggle....

Heh, I knew you'd say that. So I'm not being entirely accurate. I'll rephrase:

There's a high potential that using a Windows-based computer to surf the web might be illegal under draft legislation.

According to Blowdart (well, the last time he spoke to me....a while ago), some recent legislation made its way through, I don't know if it's been ratified yet, but it involved extremely vague remarks about making tools that allow criminal hacking prohibited and illegal under criminal law, the legislation was so broad it technically included web-browsers as part of its scope.

Custa1200 wrote:

I can't wait till you are actualy mature enough to work for a company that produces software.

No need to get personal now, I do actually write software for profit myself (but I open-source most of it); when I see it warezed I'm actually flattered. But that hasn't been a problem, and IMO if warezed software is cutting into your company's profits then you have a major philosophical problem there, best solved using philosophical methods, not technical.

Software will always be cracked.

Custa1200 wrote:

Let us know when you are working for one so I can do something I never do, I would really enjoy advocating the piracy of any project that you will work on.

Am I advocating piracy? Quote me.

Custa1200 wrote:

I'd love to see a company be ripped off and go down the gurgler as you sit behind your personal beliefs.

What "personal beliefs" are you talking about?

Custa1200 wrote:

You really do show your age at times W3bbo no mater how mature you think you are.

Cite examples, do you even know how old I am? And what does age have to do with this, that's ad-hom, a logical fallacy.

Ion Todirel wrote:

cmon don't make this personal, and Apple is't right either, not anyone can afford Apple's hardware

Apple's boutique image and similar price-tags have nothing to do with this. OSX, at retail, actually costs less than Windows XP Professional.

W3bbo wrote:

Apple's boutique image and similar price-tags have nothing to do with this. OSX, at retail, actually costs less than Windows XP Professional.

Retail OS X ($129) is also cheaper than XP Home retail ($199).